Internet has just been finished "40" birthday to usher in a major change.October 30, the global Internet governance body the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved the Internet can use Chinese, Arabic and Korean and other non-Latin characters registered domain name.It is reported that 1.6 billion Internet users worldwide, more than half of the mother tongue is not English, the new arrangements will enable the further popularization of the Internet is significant.
U.S. university to open birthday party
About 200 industry celebrities, scholars and entrepreneurs, 29, University of California at Los Angeles gathered to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the birth of the Internet.
The computer from the university professor Leonard Dirk Reinhard Rock birthday party on the Internet, and the moment of birth of the Internet was recalled to analyze the current situation and development prospects of prediction.
October 29, 1969, 克莱因罗克 led a research group, University of California, Los Angeles, the first time a computer and a research institute connected to another computer, so that they "talk" to become an Internet prototype.
克莱因罗克 said that 40 years ago, he did not think there will be "Face", YouTube and other social networking sites and video sites, but also did not expect the Internet will bring about spam and malware issues.
He said: "The network now has penetrated every aspect of our lives. It was like a teenager, and sometimes not very obedient, exposed some shortcomings. The problem is, when it grew into a young man, this period will not listenend? "
Turning to the future direction of the Internet, 克莱因罗克 said: "The next step will be to the physical world the Internet ... ... it will be everywhere. When I walked into a room, it will know that I am, and my dialogue."
Chinese language is the greatest demand for Arab
According to reports, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Board of Directors 30 in Seoul, South Korea ended a week-long meeting, a vote can be used by domain names in languages other than English, governments can begin next month to apply to the agency,new domain name using a variety of languages.Expected that the new domain can be started early next year, of which the domain name in Chinese and Arabic, the greatest demand.
According to results of the meeting, non-English speaking countries can be as early as November 16, the language constitutes its own Web site to submit an application, the domain name ". Com" ". Org" ". Gov" and other States will be the corresponding text. "company "." organization "." Government "appears.ICANN estimates, the fastest in the early users see in their own words to make the site URL.
Although part of the site has been able to use letters other than Latin, but as. Com and other domain names have to use Latin.The new system put into use, the Chinese Internet users may see something like "the Xinhua News Agency. China" Chinese domain name of the whole.
The biggest technical challenge in 40 years
It is reported that the new domain name system has been debated and tested for several years, ICANN officials said it was founded 40 years the Internet's largest technical challenges, they will release a translation system, responsible for a variety of text into the correct URLIn addition the new site will allow Internet users do not enter the last 4-6 characters, so each day can reduce 60 to 100 billion times the keyboard input.
ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom said: "This is one small step for ICANN, but it is using non-Latin text of half a man, a big step, such as Asia, Africa and the rest of the world speak Arabic, Chineseand the Korean region. "
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ICANN
ICANN is a nonprofit international organization, in October 1998 in the United States Department of Commerce was established under the proposal, the implementation of assigned Internet domain names and other important management functions.Today, there are more and more countries the company's "monopoly power" of legitimacy.Some countries believe that the U.S. government through the company master the ultimate control over the domain name system, resulting in uneven distribution of the domain name address other issues.
Website and Domain Name
The relationship between URLs and domain names are often easily confused, in fact, registered the domain name does not mean that URL.For example, XYZ Internet Web site is http / / www.xyz.cn, the corresponding domain name is xyz.cn, but can not say xyz.cn this domain is a URL.
Difference between domain names and URLs, only when the domain name after domain name resolution (that is, the domain name and IP address of the site to establish the corresponding connection relationships) later, the domain name can be a URL, that URL is used when direct access to Web siteat not only a home address, it can be a content page of any Web site (URL).
In addition, the registered domain name, the domain name does not necessarily put into use, some just for investment or reserve the domain name is registered and did not establish any correspondence between a web site, this time can not be called a web address of the domain name.
As we all know, since the last century, 80 years, most of the site's domain name is the 26 English letters, 10 numerals and "-" symbol as a basis.This means Internet users do not know English, at least have to learn 26 English letters, Chinese or Arabic can browse the Internet site.Now, there are a limited number of search sites can help users to find or access the website they want to go, but far from meeting the demand.
Experts believe that the Internet web site out of the shackles of the Latin alphabet only, non-Latin alphabet languages will contribute significantly to the national popularity of the Internet and use, reducing the gap between countries with Latin languages.